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Abt Associates and many of our employees have been honored for leadership and innovation in the way we carry out our work.

As a company, Abt Associates is—

A Devex Top 40 Innovator, in recognition of our work in meeting the global challenges of underdevelopment and poverty, selected in a poll of thousands of global aid and international development professionals

A Honomichl U.S. Top 50 and Global Top 25 U.S. Market Research Firm, considered the industry’s definitive scorecard

A Washington Technology Top 100 company, a list which ranks the largest companies serving the government market.

In 2013, Abt Associates was named a winner of the Bethesda MagazineGreen Award, which honors businesses that promote and practice a green lifestyle. The award recognized the company’s commitment to incorporate environmental sustainability into its operations.

The Abt Global Intranet (AGI) was named one of the 10 best-designed intranets for 2014 by the Nielsen Norman Group, a user-experience research firm.

Vice President and Senior Fellow Deborah Klein Walker in 2012 won the American Public Health Association’s prestigious Martha May Eliot Award, which recognizes extraordinary leadership, advocacy, teaching and research in maternal and child health.

Mike Battaglia and Martin Frankel, Ph.D., were part of the team that received the 2011 Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award from the American Association of Public Opinion Research for developing a survey method known as address-based sampling to reach the millions of households that only have cell phones.

Courtney Kennedy, senior methodologist in Abt SRBI, won the 2011 Seymour Sandman Student Paper award, a top honor from the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Her research design involving landline and cell phone surveys was described as “virtually perfect.”

The 2014 Clark Abt Prize for outstanding social impact was awarded to Dereje Dengela, Bradford Lucas and Allan Were for reducing the morbidity and mortality of malaria in Africa through the Africa Indoor Residual Spraying Project (AIRS). Since project inception, AIRS has protected 26 million people, including 4 million children under the age of five.

The 2013 Clark Abt Prize for outstanding social impact was awarded to the team of Leulseged Ageze, Esubalew Demissie, Workie Mitiku and Hailu Zelelew for improving access to high-quality care and driving gains in health through the Ethiopia Health Sector Financing Reform project.

The 2012 Clark Abt Prize for outstanding social impact was awarded to Allison Muma and Alan White for their work developing and implementing a Five Star Quality Rating System for nursing homes that is used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

In 2010, the inaugural Clark Abt Prize for Achieving Outstanding Social Impact was awarded to the USAID-funded Health System Reform in Central Asia Project (known as Zdrav, which means health in Russian). The project was the longest and largest in the company’s history, working in five Central Asian countries to improve health outcomes for some 70 million people. Sheila O’Dougherty directed Zdrav throughout its 15 years, and is now responsible for a follow-on effort. The prize is named after the company's founder, Clark Abt.

Abt Associates is a mission-driven, global leader in research, evaluation and implementing programs in the fields of health, social and environmental policy, and international development. Known for its rigorous approach to solving complex challenges, Abt Associates is regularly ranked as one of the top 20 global research firms and one of the top 40 international development innovators. The company has multiple offices in the U.S. and program offices in more than 40 countries.